Masgid Sultan Abu el-Eala: Sheikh Shaaban: Asr Adhan
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Kipervaser, Anna
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LLC
Abstract
Video & audio recordings of 6 muezzins reciting the adhan (Muslim call to prayer), with supporting photographs of muezzins and their respective mosques.
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Sheikh Said demonstrates the ‘Asr adhan at 3:36pm on August 15, 2010 at Sultan Abu el-Eala Mosque in Boulaq Abu el-Eala. He has been a muezzin here for almost one year; he and his whole family moved here from his village for this job.
Keywords
Oral Literature, Oral Tradition, Linguistic Anthropology, Muezzin, Adhan, Cairo, Egypt, Ethnomusicology, Islam, Mosque, Sacred music, Call to prayer, Ancient tradition
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World Oral Literature Project
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Hartley Film Foundation, National Geographic All Roads Film Project, Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund